>>64
If you were writing a modern operating system from scratch, why on earth would you use C in stead of LISP?
Unless you're writing Yet Another Shitty UNIX Clone, in which case I suggest you do something worthwhile and write drivers for Plan 9.
>>69
My software needs have been growing more and more minimalist over the years[1]. If I ever take an interest in hardware beyond ``it just works'' it would be super cool to build my own 680x0 machine with certain modern conveniences, like a 16 GB CF card SSD[2] and double-buffered graphics because RAM is dirt cheap.
Unfortunately the later 68k-series processors that can address more than 16MB don't come in DIP, because they need too many pins.
Except for Firefox I don't even notice the difference between my 2011 Thinkpad and 1997 Dell. Once I can break my addiction to Web shit[3] I'll have no reason whatsoëver to run a modern machine.
Too bad I can't into hardware beyond blathering on the Internet.
[1]: In 2005 I used OpenOffice. In 2009 I switched to LaTeX. In 2012 I switched to TROFF.
[2]: CF cards use the IDE interface. I used a passive CF::IDE adaptor for a year when my laptop's hard drive died.
[3]: The only ``web shit'' I do with any regularity that doesn't Just Work in Plan 9's Abaco browser is
posting on the imageboards. That worked fine in text mode in Lynx until the advent of
CAPTCHA.